I think that the most common units should be supported in the format.
I not sure that it should be necessary for folks generating documents
to have to make sure they are doing appropriate unit conversions.
However, I could be convinced either way.
wt
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02
- Hamburg <> wrote:
> Ming Fei Jia wrote:
> > It seems most of values use "in" instead of "cm" as unit for length.
>
> You are right. But at least in OpenOffice.org, the measurement unit that
> is used in ODF depends on the measurement unit that is selected for the
> UI. If measures are displayed in inch, then the unit that is used in ODF
> is "in". If measures are displayed in "cm", then "cm" are used in ODF.
> That means that it depends on the unit setting in the UI that was
> active when saving the defaults whether they are stored in inch or cm.
> We could also use only inch, or only cm, if we want.
>
> So, the question is actually what the preferred measurement unit for an
> international standard would be, or if there is such a preference at all.
>
> Related to this is the question whether and how we define defaults for
> those properties that may have locale dependent values. I have suggested
> already that we don't specify defaults for the page size, because there
> are at least Legal and A4 paper dimensions. Assuming A4 as default won't
> work very well for countries that usually use only Legal paper, and vice
> versa. However, there seem to be several properties that depend on the
> paper dimensions. Like the margins, where I assume that other margins
> are reasonable for a Legal page than for an A4 page. The same applies to
> the dimensions of headers and footers. And even for the default tab stop
> distance I believe that another values is reasonable for countries that
> use the metric system than for those that use English units.
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
>
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